Tucking into a bowl of cream of mushroom soup or a plate of sauteed mushrooms may be an effective way of upping your vitamin D intake, provided you choose mushrooms that have been exposed to plenty of UV light, suggest the authors of a new US study.
In the randomised study out of Boston University, 30 healthy adults took capsules of vitamin D2, capsules of vitamin D3, or mushroom powder containing vitamin D2 once a day during the winter, when stores of the sunshine vitamin are low.
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